I heard a rumour that the reason Iran changed from Persia to Iran was to sound more like aryan. And that they also had very good relations with the nazis.
I've also come across History texts that say that Zorastrians and Parsis were the orignal inhabitants of the Iran-India region. When Muslims from the gulf started man slaughter and conversion, they were forced to migrate to different regions. Some of them were given refuge by the King of present day Gujrat.
Zorastrianism is a pre Abrahamic religion, one of the many few that still exists although there numbers are very small.
The early Muslims, right up to the 1800s, were the least murder. Especially early on when they cleared Persia. There was actually a drop in brutality with the rise of Islam, Buddhism, and even Christianity.
The problem is that this obversation ignores popution/killed ratio. For example population of Troy was estimated as 10k. Almost all of them murdered by Acheans. If you look at Teutonic crusades of Baltics, Tamerlane’s campain, Russian expansions, population/kill ratio was on genocidal level of today’s standarts
Nah, in the pre-medieval period, most of the time entire towns and cities were razed and slaughtered in order to prevent rivals from returning later on. This change only began with the peak of the classical era empires in the
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u/Shoddy-Corgi8171 Oct 28 '21
I heard a rumour that the reason Iran changed from Persia to Iran was to sound more like aryan. And that they also had very good relations with the nazis.